Sanford (surname)
Appearance
Sanford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Sanford, Dominican cricketer
- Agnes Sanford, American Christian writer
- Arlene Sanford, American film and television director
- Chance Sanford, American baseball player
- Charles S. Sanford, Jr., American businessman
- Chris Sanford (born 1968), American retired mixed martial artist
- Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Donald Sanford, American-Israeli Olympic sprinter
- Edmund Sanford, American psychologist
- Edward Sanford, New York politician
- Edward Terry Sanford, U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Fred Sanford, American baseball player
- Fred Sanford, American musician
- Garwin Sanford, Canadian actor
- Henry Shelton Sanford, American diplomat and businessman, founder of the city of Sanford, Florida.
- Isabel Sanford, American actress and comedian
- Jack Sanford (1917-2005, first baseman), American baseball player
- Jack Sanford (1929-2000), American baseball player
- James Sanford (born 1957), American track and field sprinter
- John A. Sanford (1929–2005), also known as Jack, American Jungian psychoanalyst and Episcopal priest
- John C. Sanford (born 1950), American plant geneticist and advocate of intelligent design and young earth creationism
- John E. Sanford (died 1907), U.S. politician in Massachusetts
- John Elroy Sanford, birth name of American comedian Redd Foxx
- John Langton Sanford (1824–1877), English historical writer
- John Sanford (author), American author and screenwriter, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro
- John Sanford (governor) (1605–1653), founder of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
- John Sanford (1803) (1803–1857), U.S. Representative from New York
- John Sanford (1851) (1851–1939), U.S. Representative from New York
- John W. A. Sanford (1798–1870), United States Congressional Representative from the state of Georgia
- Katherine Sanford (1915-2005), American cancer biologist
- Kiki Sanford, American neurophysiologist and science communicator
- Leonard Cutler Sanford (1868–1950), American surgeon and ornithologist
- Lillias Rumsey Sanford, American school founder
- Louis Childs Sanford, American Episcopal bishop
- Lucius Sanford, American American football player
- Maria L. Sanford, American educator
- Mark Sanford (1960– ), American South Carolina politician
- Mike Sanford, American college football coach
- Mike Sanford Jr., American football coach
- Mitchell Sanford (1799–1861), New York politician
- Nathan Sanford (1777–1838), New York politician, US Senator
- Nehemiah Curtis Sanford, American industrialist and politician
- Reuben Sanford (1780–1855), New York politician
- Richard K. Sanford (1822–1895), New York politician
- Roscoe Frank Sanford, American astronomer
- Scott Sanford (born 1963), American politician, accountant, and Baptist clergyman
- T. Denny Sanford, American businessman and philanthropist
- Taylor Sanford, American baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator
- Terry Sanford, American governor and senator from North Carolina
- Thomas Sanford, nuclear physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize in 2005
- William Eli Sanford, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and politician
- Winifred Sanford (1890 - 1983), American writer
Fictional characters
- Fred G. Sanford, of the TV series Sanford and Son